Fly-net for horses or cattle



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FLY NET FOBl HORSES 0R CATTLE.

Patented Jung 24, 18904.

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FLY NET POR HORSES 0R GATTLB. No. 430,742. PatentedJu'ne 24, 1890. Y

i UNITED STATES `PMENT OFFICE.

JOSEPH MONK, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

.-FLYeNET FOR HORSES OR CATTLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 430,742, dated June 24, 1890.

Application led September 7, 1889. Serial No. 323,330. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOSEPH MONK, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city of Chicago, county of Cook, and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Nets for the Protection of Horses or Cattle from Flies, of which the following is a specication.

The object of the invention is to surround horses or cattle when standing in stalls or sheds or in the open air with an open compound fringe net, which shall not only extend all around the animal, but shall fall over and upon it by means of the long pendent strings, of which the compound fringe net is composed. These strings are not hung iinmediately beside each other, so as to form a curtain, but are pendent ata dist-ance of two or three inches apart each way the entire length and breadth of the compound fringe. This fringe is represented in the drawings of the same annexed hereto and marked, respectively, Figures I, 2, 3, et, and 5.

The letters A, B, C, D, E, F, G, Il, I, K, L, IWI, N, and C specify the different details of construction of said compound fringe net.

Fig. 1 is a perspective view of a section of the under side of the top or horizontal portion of the fringe net when said top consists of a piece of canvas with the strings dependent from portions of other strings passed through holes in the canvas from the upper to the under surface alternately. Fig. 2 is a cross-sectional View showing a crossstring passing from the upper to the under surface of the canvas, and vice versa, with a dependent string hanging from that portion of the cross-string that appears below the can` vas. Fig. Slis a perspective view of the under side of the upper portion of the fringe net, showing the strings dependent from the intersections of a piece of netting, the netting being stretched horizontally and the strings falling perpendicular at a distance apart of two or three inches each way. Fig. A represents a side elevational View of the dependent strings as attached to the intersections of the horizontal netting. Fig. 5 represents the complete fringe net viewed from the under side of the netting, L L L the sustaining-cords, M M M the netting, and O O O the dependent strings, all of equal length and falling to the same level when the netting hangs horizontal, all substantially as described.

The complete device is effected in the following manner: The fringe net, as represented in Fig. l, is constructed of a piece of canvas about four feet by ten feet, or of larger or smaller proportions each way, if desired, sufficient to cover an open horse box or stall. This canvas is shown stretched to posts or hooks by the cords'A A A. This canvas is pierced with small holes large enough to allow strings of stout twine to be passed through them alternately over and under the canvas lengthwise or crosswise, or both. These holes are marked B B B, Fig. l.

The cross-strings are shown as they appear on the under side of the canvas, and are marked C C C. Y

The pendent strings forming the fringe are shown at I) D D. In Fig. l these pendent strings are attached to the cross-strings on the under side of the canvas E E E.y These pendent strings hang from the entire surface of the canvas at a distance of two or three inches each way, but nowhere constitute a close curtain. There is perfect admission4 of air in all directions.

In Fig. 2, letters G G G show the pendent strings attached to the cross-strings on the under side of the canvas.

Fig. 3 shows the under side of a piece of netting stretched horizontally, with pendent strings attached to the intersections of the netting. This is shown at letters H H H and the pendent string attachments at I I I, Fig. 3. These dependent strings may he made as avpart of the netting itself. In Fig. 3 these dependent strings are shown as made separate. These strings are attached to the intersections of the entire netting, but nowhere form a close or continuous curtain, but anV open-net fringe, precisely as in Figs. l, 3, and 5, and substantially as described.

This device can be used in the open air with any kind of support-metal, wood, or string.

That I desire to secure and claim :is-

l. The combination, in a fly-net for horses or cattle, of the top or horizontal portion IOO adapted to be firmly held by cords connected to the outer edges thereof and to hooks or other suitable 'eonneetions, With a series of strands pendent from said top and constituting a compound fringe, all substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

2. The combination, in a iy-net, of the top horizontal portion composed of net Work and irmly held .in position by cords, as de- JOSEPH MONK.

Witnesses:

HENRY D. BEAM, EMMA J AooBsoN. 

